One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.